One last thing...

Sorry, but I can't think of any other things to include. The folks who put this together did a fabulous job.

It has been so much fun to read some of the blogs created by KCLS staff members. Some people are so articulate, and so creative, it is just amazing to see what can be done.

The end

This was a great experience. I loved having the chance to learn about so many things that I didn't know even existed. When I told my 25 year old daughter about all the stuff I'd learned at 2.0 U. she said, "you probably know more than I do." Woo-hoo, that is a rare admission!

It was hard to find time to work on the various "things", so my entries were very sporadic. I could have never gotten through it without help from the Answerline whiz kids, Peggi, Matt and Mary Kay.

I am very grateful that KCLS not only gave us the opportunity to pursue the 27 things, but let us do it on work time! That was a real gift. I would welcome the chance to do it again and hope that we will have the opportunity to learn about emerging technology as it becomes available. And I thank everyone involved for helping me to keep my brain active.

YouTube

YouTube is a lot of fun. Some of the library videos are hilarious, I'm going to have to work with the pages to make a video that we can post. The majority of videos I've looked at have been just for fun (love that Ninja libarian and wish we could have it running on screens around the library). In these days of short attention spans it would be a great way to have little training "bites" that could be used in a meeting or training session.

Women in art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

Zoho, Google docs

It is great to be able to go online and access documents from anywhere. What a cool feature! No more disks, or zip drives to lose. I like it. I did a spreadsheet on Google, which I copied from Excel with no trouble, and then fiddled around with it. It took awhile to figure out how to use some of the features, but it was fairly straighforward. With Zoho I made a Word document, very easy to use. I don't have a need to share my work with anyone else, but I can see how it would be extremely useful for some people.

Library 2.0

Some interesting ideas here. And I really loved reading what other people have to say about Library 2.0 on their blogs. As for me, I truly hope that we will always have real books printed on paper. The idea of reading in bed on any kind of electronic device is not appealing in the least. Back to Library 2.0, it was fascinating to read all of the ideas that are coming out in regard to libraries of the future. Libraries will obviously have to adapt to keep up with the electronic world...but what if some day all the electronic stuff just crashed, forever, and we had no books??

Rollyo, Google

I liked the Google format better, it wasn't so cluttered, no ads. I signed up for both of them just to check out the differences. I can see how these searchrolls would be helpful for library staff who answer reference questions, but I'm not sure I'll use them that much for my own personal searching. I don't want to narrow my searches down quite so much.

The Queen

I loved doing the South Park character, but I needed lots of help uploading it. Miss Diana tried her best, but without her by my side I was hopeless. Matt finally walked me through it step by step, and I was successful.

If only I were really the queen...things would be different!

Library Thing

This was a lot of fun. I like the graphic element, having my library represented by pictures of books. When I get all my books entered I'll put them on this blog. But again, I'm not really into what other people have in their libraries, so I don't care about how many other people have the same books. Rather than spending a lot of time online looking at other people's libraries I'd rather be reading. Could be an age thing...

Technocrati

The main reason I'm not crazy about this site is that I don't really care what anyone else out there is looking at. It means nothing to me that 1324 people tagged any given site. So this isn't one I'll use at all.

Del.icio.us

This one could be a lot of fun. I don't spend a lot of time surfing the internet, however, so don't have a bunch of sites I need to bookmark on del.icio.us. However, it could be a great tool for those that do have a lot of time to spend and sites to visit.

My Space

With Peggi's help, again, I did the basic set up of a My Space page. I find all the advertising on the site to be a total turn-off, I hate advertising and try to avoid it at all costs. Which isn't easy these days...

But I must say this whole process of doing the 27 Things has been so much fun. I can just feel my brain expanding with all this new knowledge. It is so great to be able to learn so much for free and at work!

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds was somewhat difficult for me. Luckily my friend Peggi helped me out again! I'm not sure how much I'll use an RSS feed, I have subscribed to various newsletters before and often ended up not having time to read them. This whole process has been so much fun, it is great to stretch my brain and expand my horizons. I really love looking at other staff members blogs, so many of them are really great. It has been fun working with other staff members, as we all go through this together.

Tomorrow it is on to My Space. Can't wait.

One last group of Bellevue pages

Erin
Pam
Sharon
Kenneth

Flickr

Flickr was pretty easy to figure out, however, my pictures disappeared and I had to re-load them all. Then I made a couple sets which also disappeared when I tried to delete the original photos from my photo collection. (Because photos taken around the Bellevue Library just don't go with my mountain photos.)

If you'd like to look at my photos, click on this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianne_d/

More pages

Hmm, somehow I deleted this photo from my blog. Luckily I was able to find it again to repost. There are still a few unphotographed pages...must track them all down.

Moving right along at a snail's pace

Peggi helped me change the look of my blog, and I'm much happier with the new look. Thanks, Peggi, you have such good taste.

I'm three weeks behind in Learning 2.0 as of today, and am just now trying to figure out the Flikr stuff. I uploaded some of my favorite pictures I've taken in the mountains, so now must figure out how to hook them up to my blog. From all the other KCLS blogger postings it sounds a bit intimidating, hope I can figure it out.

Working hard

Conan, Elizabeth

Keiko

It's been ten days since I had a chance to look at my blog! After spending some time uploading photos onto the blog itself, I'm now going to learn how to use Flikr so I can have a link to photos. After looking at some of the other oh-so-cool blogs, like Mary Kay's, Matt's and Peggi's I want to spend some time changing the "look" of my blog as well.

Job security

Elena
Raymond

What a group!

The AV Team

Say cheese

Some of the gang:

Maida, Catherine, Yvonne, Adrienne,

Karen, Mei, Daniel

l-r: Keiko, Yong-Hee, Linda, Ian and Anatoliy

We have a wonderfully diverse group of pages working at the Bellevue Library!

Keeping an active brain

This is fun! I'm looking forward to learning all the new stuff that kids today seem to be born knowing. :) And I like the idea of using a blog to communicate with my staff.

Lifelong learning is important to those of us who plan to be around until our 90's.